"You can't survive if you are weak. It is the Africans' fault that they are weak. We are 12 times the size of India, but why are we not strong?"

The third purpose for integration is strategic security. Donald Trump speaks to Africans frankly. Africans need to solve their problems. You can't survive if you are weak. It is the Africans' fault that they are weak. We are12 times the size of India, but why are we not strong?

"We are certainly not a 'shithole country,'" Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo tweeted. "We will not accept such insults, even from a leader of a friendly country, no matter how powerful."

Museveni has been in power for more than three decades.

Uganda's parliament removed presidential term limits in 2005, paving the way for him to be president for life. In 2016, he was elected for a fifth consecutive term after elections in which the opposition leader was jailed. Opposition activists have accused him of rigging polls.